Beaker is by far the most interesting application based on Dat.
I find it a pity that the datproject.org are so 'programming-focussed' to the neglect of the Dat protocol, standardization, documentation, advocacy and community-building
I find it a pity that the datproject.org are so 'programming-focussed' to the neglect of the Dat protocol, standardization, documentation, advocacy and community-building
Last time I checked (admittedly some time ago) all their libraries were NodeJS/NPM (some vanilla JS, but low-prio, unsupported), and the Dat protocol paper was out-of-date and incomplete.
There is good documentation if you want to build simple apps off of hypercore/hyperdrive, but it lacks depth/detail if you want to go further. Then you'll only find a rather small (though dedicated) community to help you.
Hope they succeed, and also that they start operating less under the radar, so to find more community help. Maybe via Beaker increasing traction they may get there.
We created a protocol working group and spec are being updated at https://www.datprotocol.com/deps/. But definitely still some need to improve docs all around! We have an upcoming grant to support this :).
- joe hand, a dat person